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Flyaway: How a Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings

by Suzie Gilbert

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A home transformed by wild bird rescue

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A home transformed by wild bird rescue

Suzie Gilbert’s memoir traces how work at an animal hospital and volunteer experience in raptor rehabilitation grew into Flyaway, Inc., a nonprofit wild bird rehabilitation center run from her home. The book places the practical realities of animal care alongside the disruptions it brings to family life: unwanted parrots, recovering herons, and a household shared with her husband and two children. Through this account of building a rescue operation from an unlikely domestic setting, Gilbert examines commitment, compassion, and the decision to follow a calling that reshapes everyday life.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in bird rehabilitation and animal rescue
  • Memoir readers drawn to personal callings and nonprofit work
  • Animal lovers interested in the day-to-day realities of caring for birds

Themes

Wild bird rehabilitationAnimal welfareFamily lifeCompassionFollowing a calling

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Book overview

Suzie Gilbert discovered her true calling when she began working at a local animal hospital. Eventually, she started bringing abused and unwanted parrots home, and volunteering at a local raptor rehabilitation center. From there it was a short flight to her ultimate commitment: Flyaway, Inc., the nonprofit wild bird rehabilitation center she ran out of her own home.

With heart and delightful wit, Gilbert chronicles daily life in her household-cum-bird-hospital, and recounts the resulting chaos as she, her husband, and their two young children struggled to live in a home where parrots shrieked Motown songs and recuperating herons took over the spare bathroom. Flyaway is a remarkable story of compassion for and dedication to beautiful creatures--and the importance of pursuing even the most unlikely of dreams.

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